Well, I just figured out how to get the closest point on the curve...so no worries. Thanks!
On Nov 26, 10:43 am, "[EMAIL PROTECTED]" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > First of all...thank you, thank you, thank you. I've been using Rhino > for about 1 1/2 years, and have used Monkey as my primary scripting > tool. I was aware of Explicit History, but never really got that into > it because - although many of its features were very attractive - it > didn't seem as flexible, particularly in making use of conditionals > and nested loops and the like. GH with vbnet has exploded onto the > scene for me in this last month...it's just tremendous: all the > convenience of both the GUI and hand-scripted elements. I'm deeply > grateful to McNeel for putting the impressive resources behind this > project, and the dedication of the developers on this discussion forum > is exemplary. Really, kudos to you all for this great work. > > To my question: having used Monkey so long, I'm still getting used to > the different syntax and object behavior in vbnet, which is why I'm > having a devil of a time figuring out in it the proper syntax for > returning the point on a curve that is closest to a test point. I > have my curves loaded and test points ready, I've searched this and > other forums, downloaded and checked the vbnet help file recommended > here, but still can't parse it. > > (An additional question: I'm using the rhutil.rhinointerpcurve method > quite a bit and to fine effect in defining an onNurbsCurve...from the > vbnet help file, it seems like I could somehow send it null start and > end vectors? It doesn't work if I leave those arguments blank. Also, > if I could return null vector values, would this have the effect of > essentially calculating the start and end vectors based on the first > two and last points, respectively?) > > Thanks again, > > Dave
